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Marianne Wiggins Biography

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Marianne Wiggins is an American author born on September 8, 1947. Known for her poetry and novels, Wiggins is celebrated for her distinctive narrative style and profound insights into human nature.

Needs Writing Language Silence Music Is Rhythm My Thoughts

Author:Marianne Wiggins

“I don't remember being a child, and that's why I think I'm so child-like now in my unending curiosity and approach to life.”

Thinking Children Remember Approach Curiosity Unending

Author:Marianne Wiggins

“I take the world very personally. I take history personally; I want to place myself in the larger context.”

World Want

Author:Marianne Wiggins

“I will never turn to God.”

Turns Turn To God

Author:Marianne Wiggins

“I write on a visual canvas, 'seeing' a scene in my thoughts before translating it into language, so I'm a visual junkie.”

Writing Language Seeing Scene Visuals Translate Canvas My Thoughts Junkie

Author:Marianne Wiggins

“I'm fascinated by the narrative of geology, and I'm a veritable pack rat of a collector on the road. I keep a rock hammer in my car.”

Rocks Car Narrative Fascinated Packs Rats Hammers Collectors Geology

Author:Marianne Wiggins

“Asking anyone what she or he is reading is a necessary part of conversation, exchanging news. So I take recommendations from friends - and I always pass along a book I've loved.”

Book Reading Conversation News Asking Recommendations Exchanging

Author:Marianne Wiggins

“I was a very, very old child. Sometimes you meet a child who seems more like an adult. I think I was that type of child because I had a nearly fatal kidney disease when I was 9 years old.”

Thinking Years Children Sometimes Seems Type Disease Adults Kidneys Kidney Disease

Author:Marianne Wiggins

“Maybe there are moments between any two adults in love when the age of one of them dissolves before the other's eyes, when the first refuge of the soul at its creation is laid bare and skinless as a sunbeam through a window. Innocence and vulnerability, two unmeasurable quantities...Perhaps that is the essence of the protection's intimacy, that it dwells in camouflage and justifies itself in stillness.”

Firsts Two Soul Moments Eye Age Creation Adults Window Essence Protection Intimacy Innocence Vulnerability Justify Stillness Quantity Refuge Camouflage Sunbeams

Author:Marianne Wiggins

“...to make art is to realize another's sadness within, realize the hidden sadness in other people's lives, to feel sad with and for a stranger.”

People Feels Art Realizing Sadness Art Is Stranger

Book:The Shadow Catcher: A Novel

Source: The Shadow Catcher: A Novel

“You speak your mind, don't you...? A rare find in a woman.”

Mind Speak Speak Your Mind

Author:Marianne Wiggins

“You think you know someone by looking at his face but what can one face say about the thousand thoughts behind those eyes.”

Thinking Knows Eye Faces Behinds Thousand You Think You Know

Book:The Shadow Catcher: A Novel

Source: The Shadow Catcher: A Novel

“There is only ever one answer to the question what did you do with your life, and it's the same--fleeting and unknowable--for every one of us. I lived.”

Answers Fleeting

Book:The Shadow Catcher: A Novel

Source: The Shadow Catcher: A Novel

“Wherever love comes from, whatever is its genesis, it isn’t like a quantity of gold or diamonds, even water in the earth-a fixed quantity, Fos thought. You can’t use up love, deplete it at its source. Love exists beyond fixed limits. Beyond what you can see or count.”

Use Earth Water Source Limits Gold Fixed Quantity Diamond Genesis

Book:Evidence of Things Unseen: A Novel

Source: Evidence of Things Unseen: A Novel

“I think what you can’t see is always what you should be frightened of.”

Thinking Should Fear Frightened

Author:Marianne Wiggins

“What thrills me about trains is not their size or their equipment but the fact that they are moving, that they embody a connection between unseen places.”

Facts Moving Connections Train Size Unseen Equipment

Book:The Shadow Catcher: A Novel

Source: The Shadow Catcher: A Novel

About the Author

Born: September 8, 1947
Known for: Author
Quotes: 16

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